WaPo’s Paul Farhi Exposed as #FakeNews by Veritas

After the release of Veritas’ American Pravda: CNN videos, Paul Farhi of the Washington Post wrote a hit piece with a factually incorrect claim:

“It also doesn’t disclose that he is based in Atlanta – not in Washington or New York, where most of CNN’s coverage of national affairs and politics are produced.”

In reality, our video plainly states “I’d like to introduce you to CNN Supervising Producer John Bonifield in Atlanta.”

Farhi and the Washington Post at first refused to retract this error. Eventually, falling to pressure from the outside, they conceded and placed a large editor’s note on the top of the article. See the article.

Here’s the point: Anyone who saw Farhi’s ORIGINAL work, posted on it, and linked to it still has a link that will go that story WITHOUT the Editor’s Note. Anyone who Googles the article title now or otherwise gets it in a search will get taken to the story containing the Editor’s Note.

That’s NOT how things are normally done. Normally, stories that are updated or corrected are automatically redirected to the URL containing the correction so that ALL future readers will be aware of it. Not this time. (Sadly, the media, esp the NY Times, often uses this trick to cover up early reporting errors, but that’s not the case here.)

IOW, this would appear to be the Post’s dishonest way of making sure that a lot of people out there who go to the story from someone else’s early link STILL won’t get the truth. You might want to follow up with someone at the Post and ask how and why this could possibly have happened.